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DIED. Floyd Patterson, 71, gentle and beloved legend of boxing; after years battling Alzheimer's and prostate cancer; in New Paltz, N.Y. The undersized high school dropout from Brooklyn, N.Y., won Olympic gold in 1952. Four years later, at age 21, he knocked out Archie Moore to become the world's youngest heavyweight champ--and the most conflicted. The Hall of Famer, who said he had "no self-esteem" as a kid, was so stung by a 1959 loss to Ingemar Johansson that he left the arena in disguise. Yet when he regained the title from Johansson a year later...
Health experts disagree. "If it's right there, you're more likely to buy it," says psychologist Lisa Altshuler, director of the Kids Weight-Down Program at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. "If you have to walk across the street, you'll be less likely to bother...
...work in web design. “It’s hard to depend on art,” she says, “Actually, completely unrealistic.” She does hope to show her work more widely, and currently has some pieces in a show in Brooklyn...
CLAIM TO FAME Since co-founding the Small Planet Institute and Fund with her mother, author Frances Moore Lapp, the Brooklyn resident has been raising money for environmental organizations around the world, like a quarter of a million dollars for Kenya's Green Belt Movement, which has planted 30 million trees since 1977. As a Food and Society Policy fellow at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, she travels the country educating Americans about the connection between food policy and public health...
...students come from public schools. They are often surprised at the extent of racial and ethnic diversity on campus.” IN SEARCH OF STUDENTSThree years ago, Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) Vice-President Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06 traveled to his native Brooklyn, recruiting for UMRP for the first time. Hutchinson, who identifies with the Taino native community, hoped to talk to other Native Americans about Harvard. The job was more difficult than he had imagined. “Recruiting in Brooklyn is tough, because a lot of the time you are just talking about...